Tolerance and Non-discrimination Daniela Petkovic (right), the chief trainer of nine Croatian police trainers, with one of the participants at the first OSCE training course on combating URDUR GUNNARSDOTTIR hate crime in Croatia, 30 June. lenges and Responses to Hate-Motivated Incidents in the OSCE Region”. Based on information received from governments, international organizations, and civil society, this was the ODIHR’s first effort to provide an overview of patterns and trends pertaining to hatemotivated incidents, focusing on examples of responses from OSCE participating States. An annual report on hate-motivated incidents will be published beginning in 2007. In November, the ODIHR organized an international meeting in Vienna that addressed the lack of accurate information on hate crime. Entitled “Addressing the Hate Crimes Data Deficit”, the meeting provided representatives of governments, international organizations, and civil society with a forum to exchange experiences and practical knowledge related to the collection of data on hate crime and to discuss ways of improving approaches to data collection. One of the main conclusions of the meeting was that a harmonized methodology for data collection would allow countries to compare information and to co-operate in identifying strategies to respond effectively to hate crime. Training law enforcement officers The ODIHR’s Law Enforcement Officer Programme on Combating Hate Crime was developed to increase the capacity of law enforcement officials to identify and respond effectively to hate crime and engage with affected communities. Following the pilot phase in Hungary and Spain in 2005, training under the programme was conducted in Croatia in 2006. As a result of the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the ODIHR, Croatia’s Interior Ministry has committed to introducing training on hate crime into its regular police training curriculum. Plans are now under way to conduct the programme in Poland, where a needs assessment was conducted in November. The ODIHR and the Polish Government are currently working on adapting the programme to meet the country’s needs. Given the interest in the programme on the part of several other OSCE states, the ODIHR organized an international training-of-trainers seminar in Paris on 11-13 December. The seminar, which provided an in-depth overview of the programme for police officers and prosecutors, Annual Report  67